This Week in Elasticsearch - August 14, 2013

Welcome to the seventh issue of This week in elasticsearch. In this format we try to inform you about the latest and greatest changes in elasticsearch. We try to cover what happened in the github repositories, as well as all the events happening about elasticsearch and give you a small peek in the future.

Elasticsearch core

Due to a fundamental change in Lucene 4.4 when to write compound files, the setting 'index.compound_on_flush' is now exposed via engine settings (#3461, master and 0.90)

/bin/plugin now exits with correct error codes set (like those from sysexits.h) (#3463, master and 0.90)

Sorting on sparse fields could return in an NPE (#3470, master and 0.90)

The term vector API does not crash if the mapping was misconfigured (#3471, master only)

The _default mapping was validated and merged as if it was a normal type, but does not need to (#3476, master and 0.90)

Adding an empty top level filter to a query lead now works (#3477, master and 0.90)

A possible NPE in post mode and a if a facet filter excluded all found documents has been fixed (#3479, master and 0.90)

Added support for getting templates using the java client via IndicesAdminClient.getIndexTemplates() (#3439, master and 0.90)

The debian init script has been fixed to work with older versions of the start-stop-daemon, which do not have the --status option (#3452, master and 0.90)

Elasticsearch community

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Talks/Slides

Also, if you are interested in a core elasticsearch training, the next locations are Amsterdam at 20th, Austin at the 26th and Toronto at the 29th of August. For more locations, check the training page

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